Home cooked recipes from a Farmhouse kitchen
For the past six years, The Great British Bake Off has celebrated Britain’s love affair with baking, giving passionate home bakers the opportunity to compete to be crowned the UK’s Best Amateur Baker. Now, The Great British Bake Off: Live will give you the unique chance to experience unique Bake Off . The Great British…
The last time I can remember visiting a Beefeater restaurant, the logo looked like a Pacman and I got a free cup with a special hole on the top for a straw. When we were invited to review the newly refurbished Micklehead Green in St Helens, we went along not knowing what to expect. The…
You know when you go to posh restaurants and they write happy birthday on your plate in chocolate or in nice coffee shops, words like tirimasu are carefully scrolled on your saucer? I’ve always wanted to recreate it at home. To be honest though, I’ve never had the will or the inclination to melt chocolate to the…
The Cake & Bake Show, the UK’s biggest baking show is coming to Manchester, Event City from November the 12th-15th and I cannot wait. The show organisers have just announced that, for the first time, a Great British Bake Off Live Stage will be at this year’s shows, where visitors will be able to see…
On September 9th, 2015, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest reigning British monarch, ever. Kenwood is marking the momentous occasion with a hunt to find the UK’s favourite Elizabeth Sponge and they want us, the Great British public to be involved. They chose five celebrity bakers- Rosemary Shrager, Brendan Lynch, Dean Edwards, Matt Tebbutt…
This time last year, bread week was the end on my Bake Off adventure. I got the sugar and the salt mixed up. This year, I made two types of bread. I have always loved corn bread so I made a different version with oatmeal rather than corn and it was lovely. The recipe for…
Since my weaning adventure with Boo, I seem to have forgotten everything. We got stuck in a bit of a baby-food-rut. Baby G loves all things sweet-yoghurt, porridge and fruit but savoury foods are not his thing yet so most vegetables still have to be mixed with fruit. Carrot and apple or butternut squash with…
It is official. I hate biscuit week. Cakes, tarts, even pies and bread on the Great British Bake Off can excite me. For some reason, biscuits do not. I like eating them. This is not some complete biscuit aversion, I just don’t enjoy baking them. So with little enthusiasm and almost no motivation or ideas,…
So Bake Off is back and the beady eyed amongst you may have noticed a difference in the tent this series. No Paul hasn’t gone greyer and I am not referring to Mary’s amazing jackets. I’m talking equipment. Gone are the previous mixers. The Great British Bake Off 2015 is all about the kMix and…
So it’s back. The Great British Bake Off has begun and, in Episode One, the contestants made a madeira cake, a frosted walnut cake and a Black Forest gateau. I therefore decided to play along myself again this year and, my first offering is a Black Forest Gateau Cake. Ingredients 8 oz self raising flour…
